Past tense of conflate
regular verb
The past tense of conflate is conflated. The past participle is also conflated.
Forms of conflate
| Base form (V1) | conflate /kənˈfleɪt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | conflated /kənˈfleɪtɪd/ |
| Past participle (V3) | conflated /kənˈfleɪtɪd/ |
| Present participle | conflating |
| Third person singular | conflates |
Conflated in a sentence
- But as Covid wore on, and all of this not-really-reading took on an ever more breathless quality, it became clear that we were being not confused but conflated, treated as one interchangeable Naomi.2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Penguin, →ISBN, page 39
- Climate skeptics have conflated the two for years, for example, pointing to cold winter weather as proof that global warming is a hoax, most likely to play on people’s confusion about the two.2020 September 15, Brandon Miller and Judson Jones, “Climate is not weather: Trump continues to get the two conflated”, in CNN
- Scribes sometimes conflated Aelia Eudocia and Aelia Eudoxia.From the entry Eudocia
- How did the two get conflated into a shared vision of beauty?2006, H. Peter Steeves, The Things Themselves, page 75. From the entry ab
- But that should not be confused or conflated with citizenship, for, according to Jebb, "citizenship includes subjecthood, but subjecthood does not include citizenship."2010, Sukanya Banerjee, “Introduction”, in Becoming Imperial Citizens: Indians in the Late-Victorian Empire, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry subjecthood
Meaning of conflate
- verb To combine or mix together.
- verb To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to mistakenly treat (them) as equivalent.
- verb To deliberately draw a false equivalence or association, typically in a tacit or implicit manner as propaganda and/or an intentional distortion or misrepresentation of the subject matter.
Questions about the past tense of conflate
- What is the past tense of conflate?
- The past tense of conflate is conflated.
- What is the past participle of conflate?
- The past participle of conflate is conflated.
- Is conflate a regular or irregular verb?
- Conflate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: conflate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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